Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1887-09-28
SPRAY OF THE FALLS.

J. II. Mcknight aas returned from Fort
Shaw.
A good sidewalk has been placed beside
Getz's saloon.
Goods are on the shelves already in
Meningitis store.
Rapid progress Is being made with Ira !
Myers new house. |
F. W. Anderson undertakes to stuff
animals and to cure skins.
Part of the foundation of MIR. Roberts
store on Central avenue is laid.
j. T. Arlington and William Mcqueen
arrived in the city to-day from Belt.
D. j. Hogan, the prominent stock man
of the South Fork country, is in the city
to-day.
Playing cards are strewn in First-avenue
South like leaves of the forest when win
ter is nigh.
Revenue collector Lemon returned from
Benton yesterday and will remain with
us q few days.
Ground has been broken for a store
above where Lapeyre did business on
Central emu
It is said that L%apeyre's former store will
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the higher grades.
tt e ~coroner's jury returned a verdict
of suicide, yesterday afternoon, in the case
of Ida Ravens who shot herself at the
graders camp.
Ringwald s. Carrier, the Central ven
jewellers. have one of the neatest stores IN
Montana, and soon will have as large a
stock as many Of the Butte and Helena
houses.
Three OF Judge Rolfe's horses were shod
at Pratt's to-day. All speak we'll ,of the
German horse sheer there. He was five
wears in the Prassian cavalry service as
horse sheer.
Assistant Postmaster Taylor says that if
the person who mailed a letter to Mrs.
Martha Browning, Atlantic City. New
Jersey, will call at the p~ostofice he will
learn something to his advantage.
The celebrated race horses Daniel B,
Nevada ana Benton, owned by Dan Blew
ms, passed through town yesterday on the
way to Mr.. BIS Highwood ranch. where
they will remain until next season.
1t is reported that the first case on the
docket of Cascade county's district court
will be one in which an ex-restaurant en-
ployee will be defendant. The plaintiff
will sue for divorce. Ground for action,
adultery.
Commissioner Wegner left for Benton
to-day to attend the meeting of the board
of equalization. The board has been in
session for a week past but as there was a
disagreement between the two members
on some matters, Mr.. Wegner was tele-
graphed for.
Messrs. Miner and Boardman of the
Miner Livestock Company, Shonkin
range,a arrived in the city last evening from
Chestnut and stopped to take in the
town. to-day. They are delighted with
Great Falls and contemplate makingsome
investments here.
Mr.. Charles Wegner brought in from
John Corners ranch yesterday a head OF
cabbage weighing twenty-four pounds
and a squash that tips the beam at forty
pounds. He says they are astonishing
vegetables and that there are lots more
where they came from.
The TRIBUNE regrets very much tt
learn that So good a citizen of Cascade
county as Mr.. Thos. Dunn of Sun river
valley, has caught the California fever
and is about to take up his residence al
Los Angeles. The success of his ole
friend, O. e. Churchill, was too much fol
him and he has decided to sell out some
of his properly here and live "where the
orange blossoms grow"
We understand that through tickets tc
all points east and south are now on sale
at the office of T. C. Power & Bro, Fort
Benton, over the Manitoba road, now
running through and regular trains from
Fort Assinaboine daily except Friday
Parties can take a covered coach at Benton
in the morning and leave on the train
from Assinaboine for the east the same
day.
Jas. Farrell, the gentleman who came
here with the view of engaging in tree
culture and nursery business, returns to
Dakota to close up his business in that
section and in the spring will come tc
Great Falls to engage in the business
mentioned. He has had much experience
and is IF the opinion that Northern Mon
tana " II be an excellent field for his
business.
Ike Manery has demonstrated the truth
of the old saying that ''it never rains but
it pours." A day or W ago we recorded
the loss of one of his valuable black
horses. On Saturday he started from this
city with team and buggy to bring back
his cab and had not preceded far until the
team ran away and fairly demolished the
vehicle. Mr.. Manery was thrown out of
the buggy and received several painful
but not serious injuries about the face.
Last evening tho gentleman who brand
ed another in a scrap during the afternoon
called at this Office and took exception to
the printed paragraph relating to it
threatening dire physical punishment on
anv reporter who would again use his
name in the TRIBUNE, and saying "my
reputation is bad enough now, without
having it made worse" The paragraph
was q mere bit of pleasantly and not in.
tended as a reflection. Evidently, the
gentleman is as tlick-headed as he is
reputed strong armed.
Hon. T. E. Collins, of Fort Benton, ar.
rived Friday last BY private conveyance,
accompanied by his family who will
spend several weeks here. Mr.. Collins
will, in the mean time, visit Kingston,
Castle and Birch Creek mining districts.
He has valuable interests in two of the
above named camps and we trust may
invest in the third before he leaves our